How to ACTUALLY learn a language through watching TV

With a busy program, you still need time to relax. But how can you balance this with languages? Make your relaxing time more efficient by watching shows AND learning a language! Here are my 3 methods that you can try.

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[sarahs.]

As a beginner i actually like mixing hard and easy content. Idk why but it helps me bridge things and usually helps me hear common words more often.

[Ellary_Rosewood]

My Georgian friend learned English almost completely from watching cartoons, movies, and tv shows as a kid. A lot of the time there weren't even any subtitles so he was just listening without understanding anything at first. I was so impressed, but then I realized that when I was first learning Japanese (the first language I ever learned), most of my knowledge came from simply watching and listening to media in Japanese. Even now I feel like most of my language learning in any of the languages I'm studying comes from videos. 😂

[WelcomeToClaires]

as much as I like structuring my learning, I ALWAYS end up learning most of the language by actually just watching TV. It makes speaking the language so much easier, and once you're speaking you learn so much more than from books

[marcelopugnali]

True, I also learn foreign languages by watching TV and YouTube videos!! It has worked great for me!!! I watch movies and series in foreign languages!!

[chadbailey]

Great advice Lindie. I especially struggle with finding shows at my (A1-A2 level) that aren’t kids shows. Like you said. Thanks for the tips! Спасибо большое за совет))

[Jelloc]

I love Mind Your Language series from the 70s, helped me with my English alot lol!

[MrVoicemailGuy]

As a beginner, I've only ever been able to use books and apps to learn Japanese and Portuguese. I've felt like it's been a safe space for me especially since I wanted to move at a much slower pace than most people.

I've never heard of Lingopie until now so I think I'll get out of my comfort zone and try it as well as the methods mentioned in this video. Thank you Lindie❤

[remy]

I'd recommend watching something you're already familiar with. The first movie I've ever watched in English was Pirates of the Caribbean and I'd already watched it in my native language plenty of times; I even knew some of the lines by heart. There were plenty of words I didn't know but because I was so familiar with the movie already, it wasn't exhausting or overwhelming whatsoever

[TheTeachingCouple]

We learned English (same with a couple of more languages) when we were younger mostly with tv shows and movie 😊🎉

[lalillyland]

Thank you so much for all the tips! I decided to come back to learn Swedish but this time I have less time, so it will be helpful to do shadowing at least while I'm doing some chores. Me alegra de todo corazón verte brillar de nuevo 💖🙏✨

[MikkoDaFinlandia]

Thank you for the inspiring video! Showing how you use the tool was interesting & useful. I tried Lingopie before with Portuguese. I’ve watched their European Portuguese videos. I can recommend the tool although their library in that language was a bit limited when I used the tool. In addition, I have used a similar tool called Yabla when Lingopie didn’t exist. The shadowing approach is especially effective because it developed my reaction speed - a skill that is essential when trying to speak the language when travelling. It depends on the content and the background but based on my experience it’s even possible to start learning a language (e.g. Italian) as an absolute beginner by just watching videos and go very far. My recipe was to first watch the videos with double subtitles, then with target language subtitles and finally without any subtitles.

[M.illie]

That's how I improved in english and french. French is our national language but not all of us speak french fluently. When I was at high school, my french teacher advised us to more listen audio and video in french, because most of the students struggled with speaking and vocabulary. As an introvert, I used to watch tv and read book instead of playing outside with other children so my level in french was better than the other. Watching english contents also help me a lot. But the trick is now I can't enjoy a show in other languages (japanese, korean, thai, chinese...) without picking vocabulary, grammar or expression anymore.

[Dafs]

I loved the idea of replying to the question that was made on the show! Ill definitely be doing that from now on, thank you! Love from Brazil 🇧🇷 (Brazilian shows are indeed great lol)

[yuenatv]

great video～ur korean progress is so inspiring, i remember watching you talk about learning korean around 2 yrs ago!

[loua.]

Thank you very much for the advice! 😊 ps. your hair looks great!! 😃

[josemariano]

I improve so much my English level listening the BBC and watching Tv shows, in fact more than studing, but if you are a beginner student I recomend you start with children's series, or series that you have watched a lot of times doubled in your mother language.
And if you are studing Spanish (from🇪🇸 ) I recomend you watch old series in RTVE's website. Because their actors had had a perfect pronuntiation and entonation that unfortunately nowadays bright for its absence in a lot of modern series an films. In fact even us, as native speakers, for a while now have a lot of problems to undestand what today's actors are saying in a lot of modern tv series or movies

[MandarinHQ]

Great video, Lindie! These methods are spot on for developing vocabulary, pronunciation and listening skills using TV shows. I've used them myself a lot (especially the first two) and they've been incredibly helpful. Keep up the great work!"

[tibowmew]

This video is exactly what I need as I was just looking to get back to studying my Korean and was considering using dramas. I know that just watching them normally doesn't do anything and was thinking through the best approach to actually gain meaningful practice from it 😃

[mebeasensei]

What a clever lil thumbnail design with the curve pointed at NF

[MarcelaChandía]

OMG I did all the things that you said with English and I learned it!!! I know it sounds pretty standard, but here in Chile, almost anybody speaks it. And when I studied Japanese, same situation. Walking at night to take the subway after class, I would have entire conversation with myself in Japanese. I also interact with shows, it is so thrilling to say the phrase before the character and have guessing right!!! 😁 Now I do it with Chinese when I watch shows, passive and active learning forever!!!❤